My audio has been crackling and popping for months so I decided to edit my registry editor by editing the conversationidletime which I read to do somewhere but as I was shutting down an update was trying to install. At shutting it down and switching it back on, the laptop got stuck on loading hp screen and now it doesn't even do that but immediately takes me to automatic repair which none of the options I've tried is working and I will do anything but reset the pc to factory as I really need my files. What should I do?

Is there anything on PC you have to save?
boot from installer
on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install.
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose command prompt
type notepad and press enter
in notepad, select file>open
Use file explorer to copy any files you need to save to USB or hdd

Is there anything on PC you have to save?
boot from installer
on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install.
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose command prompt
type notepad and press enter
in notepad, select file>open
Use file explorer to copy any files you need to save to USB or hdd

Honorable

If you have a backup, you could restore from that. That's what I always do, but if you don't have a backup or access to another computer, I don't know what else you can do but wait until you do. I always keep a copy of Linux Mint on a flash drive that I can boot from and retrieve anything when needed. It has a user interface close enough to the Windows one so that you don't need to know much, if anything, about Linux. Linux and backups sure come in very handy.

So if I make a recovery drive from another Windows 10, could it serve the same purpose as the installation media? I think a usb is my best bet as nothing else seems to be working. I also keep getting that srt/srttrail error and c:/ or system32 are not available kind of messages so I'll try the usb

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